The Association of Africanists in Germany e.V. (Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland) has extended their call for abstracts for their 2012 conference on Embattled Spaces/Contested Orders in Cologne, Germany. Not all of the panels will be held in English; however, several of them specifically request applicants to hand in abstracts in English. Topics of panels range from governance, language and media to animal spaces, land reforms and (post-) revolutionary dynamics. Medical topics may fit into certain panels. Abstracts are due on December 31st 2011.